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Kyla’s Court: Are more stoners getting behind the wheel?

This is VANCOLOUR host Mo Amir sits down with Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee break down the connection of cannabis legalization and impaired driving. Cannabis has been legal since 2018, are more people driving impaired?

“The most recent, most comprehensive study looking at what happened after cannabis legalization, found that there was actually a decrease overall in impaired driving. There was no increase in cannabis impaired driving and alcohol impaired driving has actually been on the decrease since legalization”

“They (opponents of drug liberalization) created this horrible bogeyman and made really, really strict impaired driving laws when really they should have just waited for it to play out because actually cannabis legalization seems to be good overall”

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The Tenuous Link Between Cannabis Impairment and THC Levels in the Blood

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For most people who are investigated for impaired driving by drugs, the case goes like this: the individuals are pulled over for some sort of a traffic violation. The officer forms a suspicion that they have a drug in their body, or they smell burnt cannabis, or the driver admits smoking pot a few hours earlier. The officer engages in some sobriety tests, including a saliva test that is supposed to correlate the amount of THC in your saliva to a blood THC concentration.

But what if I told you that even if THC is found in your blood, it might not accurately reflect how impaired you are?

The connection between how much THC is in your system and how impaired you are doesn’t follow a predictable pattern.

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